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Old Posted Jan 30, 2006, 12:50 AM
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^ Jaybird has since been banned from this forum. It's unfortunate because he's completely turned himself around (and has proven that on SSC) but they still won't let him come back here. I still meet up with him from time to time - we're going to a Red Wings game in March.
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^ Jaybird has since been banned from this forum. It's unfortunate because he's completely turned himself around (and has proven that on SSC) but they still won't let him come back here. I still meet up with him from time to time - we're going to a Red Wings game in March.
That all went down towards when I too stopped coming on here. At the time I was no longer much of an active poster, but I still read the site to keep up with what all was going on. I don't know what happened with him but it just seemed like he suddenly snapped. He seemed like a reasonable person with intelligent opinions then he suddenly went nuts trashing every city except Windsor (especially London). Anyway if I was in charge of anything I'd be willing to give him another chance... I mean its been what .. 3 or 4 years now? You'd think he's learned his lesson. What is SSC? Is it a cool site?
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Old Posted Jan 30, 2006, 9:55 PM
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Yeah, he was originally banned for trashing Toronto. SSC is skyscrapercity.com, it's ok but I prefer SSP because SSP is more North America oriented while SSC is more worldwide.
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Old Posted Feb 10, 2006, 4:54 PM
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We're finally getting a medical school...


Medical school magnet for jobs
Full program starts in 2008
By Doug Williamson
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The Windsor Star
Feb. 10, 2006


The creation of a stand-alone medical school on the University of Windsor campus will attract and retain doctors, create thousands of health-sector jobs and take the university into a new era of research and community involvement, officials said Thursday.
In 2008, a branch of the University of Western Ontario’s Schulich School of Medicine in London will be formally established in Windsor, offering a full, four-year program of studies to 24 first-year students per year, Ontario Health Minister George Smitherman announced in a news conference on campus.
That means by the end of the first four years, up to 96 medical students will be receiving training here, working with local doctors, researchers and hospitals.
An expansion of approximately 20,000 square feet to the university’s Toldo Health Centre will be required.
Flanked by finance minister and Windsor-St. Clair MPP Dwight Duncan and social services minister and Windsor West MPP Sandra Pupatello, Smitherman was greeted by standing ovations and cheers from the jampacked crowd at the Toldo Health Education and Learning Centre.
But it was Duncan who originally proposed the notion in 2001 as an opposition MPP, and with the help of Pupatello and a committee of dedicated local volunteers steered the idea through senior government ministries.
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medical school,” a beaming Duncan said to cheers and applause.
In an interview, Duncan said studies have shown that an “average-sized” medical school, such as the one planned for Windsor, can produce up to 5,000 direct and 12,000 indirect jobs as health-care sector companies locate nearby, in addition to hiring at the university and local health care facilities.
“Medical schools are huge drivers of economic growth,” Duncan said. “This is the first important peg in diversifying our economy.”
Mayor Eddie Francis said the announcement shows what can be accomplished in Windsor. “This is a great day. We have to break out of this shell and inferiority complex.”
The accomplishment was especially sweet news because of the initial reaction from the former PC government in Toronto to the idea, others said.
“It’s been a great benefit because they told us we’d never have a medical school in Windsor,” said Windsor businessman Ted Farron, who served on the original steering committee along with labour council president Gary Parent and medical officer of health Dr. Allen Heimann.
A 20,000-square-foot addition to the Toldo building on campus will house classrooms and other facilities for the new students, but drawings have not been prepared, according to Dr. Raphael Cheung, a Windsor doctor who is assistant dean of the Southwestern Ontario Medical Education Network.
SWOMEN was formed three years ago as a satellite campus of UWO, allowing third- and fourth-year students from London to receive hands-on clinical training in local hospitals and doctors’ offices as part of their curriculum. About 190 local doctors work with the students now, and Cheung said more will have to be recruited when the new building opens.
But the new campus will be a fullfledged medical school, Cheung said. “I’m ecstatic,” the Windsor endocrinologist said.
Medical students often end up staying in the communities where they train, said Carol Herbert, dean of the Schulich medical school in London.
“We need health professionals across the disciplines,” Herbert said, referring to the shortage of doctors in this part of Ontario. “We have the same problems here as the far north.”
Jeremy Mozzon, a third-year SWOMEN student studying in Windsor, said he is considering staying here after graduation, and said other students will take a more serious look at Windsor-Essex.
“They see what it’s about. By coming here (the new school) puts it much higher in the radar,” Mozzon said.
Smitherman said the province plans to create a total of 104 new medical school spots across Ontario, in Waterloo, St. Catharines, Mississauga and Windsor.
U of W president Ross Paul said the Windsor proposal is the most advanced because of concrete plans to establish the full school here in co-operation with UWO.
UWO representatives who toured Windsor and Essex County were impressed at the level of research being done here, he said.
The shortage of doctors is still a problem, Smitherman said, adding that the new spots, along with efforts to repatriate Ontario doctors who have moved to other jurisdictions, and allow more international medical graduates to become doctors here, will go a long way toward solving the shortage.
However, Dr. Albert Schumacher, a Windsor family doctor and past president of the Canadian Medical Association, said there are still not enough medical school spots across Canada.
He said the country will be able to graduate 2,400 doctors per year, and needs to produce 3,000 to stay “self-sufficient.”
“Now we have to start planning for after this,” Schumacher said. “We can’t continue to plunder from the developing world.”
But there was no taking away from the optimistic mood Thursday, with U of W president Ross Paul heaping praise on a dozen local people who pushed the idea from the beginning.
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Great News! I was watching the news last night and heard Kitchener was getting one too?
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^ Yep, a few other places too I think.

This medical school is being called the best news to hit Windsor in over a decade....


A coup for Windsor

By Gord Henderson
The Windsor Star
February 10, 2006

What? No victory champagne? A triumphant taste of the grape was the one festive element missing when this city's movers and shakers crammed into a University of Windsor lobby to toast the best news to hit Windsor in more than a decade.

But these folks didn't need alcohol to get high Thursday at 10:10 a.m. Packed in like anchovies, these key players from every sector of the community were all but levitating with excitement over the province's announcement that Windsor, defying all the odds, has landed a full-scale medical school and joined the big leagues of a burgeoning health industry.

"This is better than any Super Bowl party. This is our Super Bowl party," gushed meat baron Ted Farron, former chamber president and one of the key players in Windsor's marathon campaign to secure a medical school that will have enormous economic, social and medical spin-off benefits.

The Windsor Campus of the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at the University of Western Ontario. Sure. It's a mouthful. But let it roll around on your tongue for a bit because that prestigious title will in time prove as meaningful to Windsor as those of established institutions like DaimlerChrysler and Casino Windsor.

The naysayers insisted it couldn't be done. They figured community leaders were blowing smoke in thinking Windsor could some day join the Medical School Big Five -- London, Hamilton, Toronto, Kingston and Ottawa -- in boasting the most coveted of educational institutions. After all, we learned long ago that the province ends at London.

Only it doesn't anymore. Luckily for us, we had an MPP in Dwight Duncan who refused to swallow this entrenched defeatism. Duncan, who can be as relentless as a badger, believed that Windsor, hamstrung by an appalling shortage of doctors, could and should be part of any provincial solution.

He sold community leaders on the idea and they ran with it. With people like big-hearted city philanthropist Tony Toldo, CAW Local 444's Gary Parent, Medical Officer of Health Dr. Allen Heimann and Farron leading the way, a Conservative government which owed this area nothing was miraculously persuaded to award Windsor a small satellite medical school.

That was the foot in the door. And when our MPPs became ministers in the Dalton McGuinty government, it was time to go for broke. With Duncan guarding the treasury as minister of finance and Sandra Pupatello, minister of community and social services, sitting just inches from Health Minister George Smitherman's ear, there would never be a better time to smash that door down.

Now it's done. A $400-million Casino Windsor expansion and a medical school on the University of Windsor campus. Some legacy. God help the wretches who'll be dragooned into running against Duncan and Pupatello in next year's provincial election.

Duncan managed the considerable feat of sounding humble in his hour of glory. "I only stated the obvious at the beginning," he told me. In other words, he planted the seed. Others watered and fertilized it.

"I never imagined this would happen as quickly as it did," said Duncan. "To have a school that will have 96 medical students here once it's up and running with a new building affiliated with one of the great medical schools, not only in Canada but in the world, is just unbelievable.

"There were skeptics," he conceded, "but there were far more people like (University of Windsor president) Ross Paul and others at the university and the chamber of commerce and the local labour movement. Everybody came together and we did it the right way."

The unsung hero of this story, said Duncan, is Dr. Carol Herbert, dean of Western's medical school. "Every one of these initiatives needs a gift from heaven and that was Dr. Herbert. She is a visionary in medical education and an amazing human being. She brings a vision of medical education that is just ideal for this community."

A Vancouver native and the first family physician to serve as dean of a Canadian medical school, Dr. Herbert could have conducted a turf war to preserve and expand the Schulich School's London base. Fortunately for us, she had the breadth of vision to recognize the needs and opportunities presented by Windsor.

And now we have the beginnings of a diversified industry that will beef up medical care in this city, generate numerous cutting-edge jobs and bolster the University of Windsor's reputation.

Lucky us.
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hey... that's great news. good for windsor.
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on totally different note... i was just looking around on the 'american apparel' website, and apparently they have a store planned for downtown windsor. 510 Pelissier Street to be exact. has anyone heard about this? and what's on that site at the moment?

IMO, this is absolutley awesome news for the downtown windsor retail community. every franchise of this store that i've ever seen (a dozen or so) has been pretty large in size, fairly well designed (if minimalist) and very popular with the university/college crowd. which windsor has in abundance.

so yet more good news for the rose city.
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Old Posted Feb 14, 2006, 12:20 AM
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^ I'm not sure what's there right now, but that's definitely interesting news. The college is still supposed to be moving into the Cleary so maybe more news like this will be forthcoming.
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According to 411.ca, Sol Footwear currently occupies the space at 510 Peilssier... I can't picture the shop, but there is a different phone number listed for Sol than there is for A.A.

Intersting...
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i remember sol footwear.
if i remember correctly, there was another shop immeatley beside it that was a part of the same property. and i believe that there was a downstairs as well. so i wonder if there's any chance that AA will be expanding on the floorplan of SOL... because it on its own would seem to be a little small for a retailer like AA.
just some baseless speculation...
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Here is a shot today of 511 Pelissier.



There was definatley some work going on in there...
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I can see the cranes for the Portofino and casino from over here in Detroit. I am looking forward to seeing both of them rise up. I think the new casino hotel tower will have a neat effect based on the way it will be viewed from the USA.
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sounds cool. in fact, i'd really like to see a photo of that view. might anyone oblige?
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Hey Blitz. I'm new to this thread but it's nice to see somebody else that is interested in the different construction projects happening in our city. I am really excited about the new Casino hotel. I remember being alot younger when the first one was being built and being in complete awe watching that huge building being constructed.
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Awesome news in Windsor. You guys have a fine city.
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Hey Cujo, good to meet another Windsorite.

The Urban Village Design Plan is going before City Council next week. Check out the enormous plan here:
http://www.citywindsor.ca/000492.asp

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sounds cool. in fact, i'd really like to see a photo of that view. might anyone oblige?
heres a link to the camera taking stills every 5 minutes or so of the casino.

http://www.casinowindsor.com/Corporate/LiveCam.asp
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hey, thanks for the link. now if only they could focus the camera...
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hey, thanks for the link. now if only they could focus the camera...
no prob, it only works good during the day though.
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